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Tiantian Sun

CHN Age 45 175 cm / 5'9" Plays: Right-Handed WTA Tour years active: 2002–2008

Tiantian Sun represented China on the WTA Tour and reached a career high of No. 77. TennisDB's records show a singles record of 27–54 and one singles title.

Peak singles rank

77 (Mar 19, 2007)

Elo peak

1650 (49th percentile)

Singles record

27–54 (33.3%)

Singles titles

Prize money

$1,019,657

Records cover recorded main-draw singles results in TennisDB's WTA event archive, including credited walkovers; qualifying is shown separately below.

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WTA Matches full match log →

Tiantian Sun's recent, live, and scheduled WTA matches
Opponent	Score	Result	H2H	Match Data	Date	Round	Tournament	Category	Surface
Jie Zheng #33	0-6 1-6	L	H2H	Match data	Sep 18, 2008*	R32	Guangzhou Open	Tier III → modern equivalent WTA 250	Hard
Victoria Azarenka #28	6-7(4) 0-6	L	H2H	Match data	Apr 17, 2008*	R32	Charleston Open	Tier I → modern equivalent WTA 1000	Clay
Ahsha Rolle #138	2-6 7-6(1) 6-2	W	H2H	Match data	Apr 16, 2008*	R64	Charleston Open	Tier I → modern equivalent WTA 1000	Clay
Anastasia Rodionova #86	6-4 6-7(2) 4-6	L	H2H	Match data	Mar 6, 2008*	R32	Bangalore	Tier II → modern equivalent WTA 500	Hard
Virginie Razzano #25	7-6(5) 6-7(2) 3-6	L	H2H	Match data	Feb 20, 2008*	R64	Qatar Open	Tier I → modern equivalent WTA 1000	Hard

Rivals all rivalries →

Tiantian Sun's most-played WTA rivals
Opponent	W	L	M	Last Played	H2H
Virginie Razzano	0	3	3	Feb 20, 2008	H2H
Gisela Dulko	0	3	3	Aug 8, 2007	H2H
Victoria Azarenka	1	1	2	Apr 17, 2008	H2H
Anastasia Rodionova	1	1	2	Mar 6, 2008	H2H
Martina Hingis	0	2	2	Sep 20, 2007	H2H

Singles Titles (1)

Tiantian Sun singles titles by season and category
Season	Singles titles	GS	WTA 1000 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA 500 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA 250 including documented historical predecessor categories	WTA Finals	Tournaments
2006	1	—	—	—	1	—	Tashkent
Total	1	—	—	—	1	—

Asterisked totals include editions mapped from documented historical predecessor categories. Mapping details.

Career Results

Tiantian Sun career results by season
Season	W	L	M	Win %	Start Rank	End Rank
2002	0	1	1	0.0%	380	231
2003	2	7	9	22.2%	231	129
2004	2	9	11	18.2%	129	126
2005	7	6	13	53.9%	126	105
2006	12	12	24	50.0%	105	81
2007	3	15	18	16.7%	81	230
2008	1	4	5	20.0%	230	281
Career	27	54	81	33.3%	—	—

Career Results by Surface

Tiantian Sun career results by season and surface
Season	Hard				Clay				Grass				Total
Season	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
2002	0	1	1	0.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%
2003	2	7	9	22.2%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2	7	9	22.2%
2004	0	6	6	0.0%	1	2	3	33.3%	1	1	2	50.0%	2	9	11	18.2%
2005	7	6	13	53.8%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	7	6	13	53.8%
2006	10	10	20	50.0%	1	1	2	50.0%	1	1	2	50.0%	12	12	24	50.0%
2007	3	8	11	27.3%	0	5	5	0.0%	0	2	2	0.0%	3	15	18	16.7%
2008	0	3	3	0.0%	1	1	2	50.0%	—	—	—	—	1	4	5	20.0%
Career	22	41	63	34.9%	3	9	12	25.0%	2	4	6	33.3%	27	54	81	33.3%

Career Results by Opponent Rank

Tiantian Sun career results by season and opponent rank
Season	1-10				11-30				31-100				100+				Total
Season	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %	W	L	M	Win %
2002	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	0	0	—	—	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%
2003	0	0	—	—	0	1	1	0.0%	1	4	5	20.0%	1	2	3	33.3%	2	7	9	22.2%
2004	0	1	1	0.0%	0	2	2	0.0%	2	3	5	40.0%	0	3	3	0.0%	2	9	11	18.2%
2005	1	0	1	100.0%	0	1	1	0.0%	2	4	6	33.3%	4	1	5	80.0%	7	6	13	53.8%
2006	1	2	3	33.3%	1	4	5	20.0%	2	5	7	28.6%	8	1	9	88.9%	12	12	24	50.0%
2007	0	0	—	—	0	3	3	0.0%	0	10	10	0.0%	2	2	4	50.0%	2	15	17	11.8%
2008	0	0	—	—	0	2	2	0.0%	0	2	2	0.0%	1	0	1	100.0%	1	4	5	20.0%
Career	2	3	5	40.0%	1	14	15	6.7%	7	28	35	20.0%	16	9	25	64.0%	26	54	80	32.5%

Opponent ranking data available for 80/81 (98.8%) of Tiantian Sun's WTA main draw matches.

Performance Stats

Tiantian Sun performance statistics by season
Season	Sample	Aces/M	DFs/M	1st Sv%	1st Sv Pts%	2nd Sv Pts%	BP Saved%	BP Conv%	Svc Pts%	Ret Pts%
2003	1/9	1.0	4.0	59.4%	60.5%	30.8%	28.6%	28.6%	48.4%	40.0%
2006	9/24	1.1	1.2	67.2%	58.1%	44.5%	53.0%	49.3%	53.8%	37.5%
2007	14/18	1.6	2.1	65.0%	55.8%	43.0%	44.6%	35.3%	51.3%	40.4%
2008	4/5	1.5	3.0	65.6%	55.4%	41.8%	51.8%	30.6%	51.0%	36.8%
Career	28/81	1.4	2.0	65.6%	56.6%	42.8%	47.8%	38.8%	52.0%	38.9%

Detailed serve and return statistics available for 28/81 (34.6%) of Tiantian Sun's WTA main draw matches.

Advanced Stats

Tiantian Sun advanced statistics by season
Season	Elo	P+	Serve+	Return+	PD	TPW%	Hard Elo	Clay Elo	Grass Elo	Set Win %	Set Margin	Dec. Set	Tiebreak	Pressure+	Schedule
2002	1493	101.5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	33.3%	-2.00	0–1	—	—	-0.19
2003	1451	101.0	-0.20	-1.27	0.776	43.9%	+17	—	—	22.2%	-1.67	0–2	1–2 (33%)	—	+0.54
2004	1430	103.5	—	—	—	—	-34	+118	—	24.0%	-1.68	1–2 (33%)	1–1	—	-0.02
2005	1520	124.6	—	—	—	—	-19	—	—	57.7%	+0.69	1–1	3–1 (75%)	—	+0.62
2006	1629	131.4	-1.14	-2.98	0.811	45.8%	-16	—	—	52.7%	-0.04	2–5 (29%)	—	—	-0.16
2007	1505	100.0	-2.48	-2.77	0.830	45.9%	+49	-23	—	20.5%	-2.13	1–2 (33%)	4–1 (80%)	101.7	-1.14
2008	1494	101.6	-1.21	-2.08	0.750	43.9%	+30	—	—	30.8%	-1.62	1–2 (33%)	2–3 (40%)	98.7	+0.02
Career	1650	117.9	-1.79	-2.69	0.810	45.5%	0	+30	—	37.4%	-0.93	6–15 (29%)	11–8 (58%)	98.4	-0.41

Tournament Results by Category

Grand Slams

Tiantian Sun Grand Slams results by season
Season	AO	RG	W	USO	W-L Win %
2003	—	—	—	R128	0–1 (0%)
2004	—	—	R64	—	1–1 (50%)
2005	—	—	—	R64	1–1 (50%)
2006	R128	R64	R64	R128	2–4 (33%)
2007	R128	R128	R128	—	0–3 (0%)
W-L	0–2 (0%)	1–2 (33%)	2–3 (40%)	1–3 (25%)	4–10 (29%)

WTA 1000

Tiantian Sun WTA 1000 results by season
Season	DOH	IW	MIA	ITA	CHA	W-L Win %
2004	—	—	R128	—	R64	0–2 (0%)
2006	—	R128	R64	—	—	1–2 (33%)
2007	—	R64	R128	R64	—	1–3 (25%)
2008	R64	—	—	—	R32	1–2 (33%)
W-L	0–1 (0%)	1–2 (33%)	1–3 (25%)	0–1 (0%)	1–2 (33%)	3–9 (25%)

WTA 500

Tiantian Sun WTA 500 results by season
Season	BEI	DOH	SHA	AME	BAN	LOS	NEW	W-L Win %
2003	—	—	R16	—	—	—	—	1–1 (50%)
2004	R32	R32	—	R32	—	—	—	1–3 (25%)
2005	QF	—	—	—	—	R32	—	3–2 (60%)
2006	R16	—	—	—	—	—	R16	2–2 (50%)
2007	R32	—	—	R64	—	R64	—	0–3 (0%)
2008	—	—	—	—	R32	—	—	0–1 (0%)
W-L	3–4 (43%)	0–1 (0%)	1–1 (50%)	1–2 (33%)	0–1 (0%)	1–2 (33%)	1–1 (50%)	7–12 (37%)

WTA 250

Tiantian Sun WTA 250 results by season
Season	ASB	DOH	SHA	JAP	BAL	BAN	BIR	GOL	GUA	HYD	PAT	PRA	STR	TAS	W-L Win %
2002	—	—	R32	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0–1 (0%)
2003	—	R32	—	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	R16	R32	—	—	—	1–5 (17%)
2004	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	R32	R32	—	—	—	—	0–3 (0%)
2005	—	—	—	—	R32	—	—	—	R16	QF	—	—	—	—	3–3 (50%)
2006	—	—	—	—	—	R32	—	R32	R16	—	R16	—	—	W	7–4 (64%)
2007	R16	—	—	—	—	—	R64	—	R16	—	R32	R32	R32	—	2–6 (25%)
2008	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	R32	—	—	—	—	—	0–1 (0%)
W-L	1–1 (50%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	0–2 (0%)	3–5 (38%)	3–3 (50%)	1–3 (25%)	0–1 (0%)	0–1 (0%)	5–0 (100%)	13–23 (36%)

Results show the best round reached per tournament and season.

WTA Ranking History full ranking history →

Career high

Career-high date

Mar 19, 2007

First Top 100

Jul 5, 2004

First Top 50

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First Top 20

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First Top 10

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Ranking History Matrix

Tiantian Sun ranking history by month and season
Season	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2000	—	—	907	654	706	420	413	422	361	353	367	359
2001	353	333	331	323	321	381	357	328	375	373	378	380
2002	380	388	398	317	262	259	243	217	220	224	228	231
2003	223	199	188	203	207	202	176	195	146	142	142	129
2004	127	126	123	112	112	111	108	112	125	131	120	126
2005	138	129	140	173	169	143	204	180	99	100	106	105
2006	110	124	124	105	103	100	86	83	128	84	80	81
2007	79	87	77	92	92	107	132	142	155	227	233	230
2008	255	231	249	197	211	216	225	232	291	285	275	281
2009	279	314	369	906	900	903	872	873	757	846	832	823
2010	824	822	818	824	835	819	—	—	—	—	—	—

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Zsofia Gubacsi	HUN	#76	1,609	55	19	36	34.5%	$375,894	1	1998–2007	Rivalries	Match log
Zuzana Ondraskova	CZE	#74	1,594	98	31	67	31.6%	$879,679	0	2001–2012	Rivalries	Match log
Viktoriya Kutuzova	UKR	#76	1,618	62	21	41	33.9%	$586,580	0	2003–2011	Rivalries	Match log
Renata Voracova	CZE	#74	1,523	78	24	54	30.8%	$1,945,079	0	2002–2017	Rivalries	Match log
Rika Fujiwara	JPN	#84	1,561	55	18	37	32.7%	$882,018	0	2000–2011	Rivalries	Match log
Selima Sfar	TUN	#75	1,590	77	21	56	27.3%	$876,041	0	1996–2010	Rivalries	Match log
Tzipora Obziler	ISR	#75	1,629	84	34	50	40.5%	$595,265	0	1998–2009	Rivalries	Match log
María Emilia Salerni	ARG	#65	1,556	92	31	61	33.7%	$692,277	0	2000–2009	Rivalries	Match log
Sanda Mamic	CRO	#83	1,586	37	14	23	37.8%	$237,432	0	2004–2008	Rivalries	Match log
Abigail Spears	USA	#66	1,600	62	21	41	33.9%	$2,994,112	0	2001–2012	Rivalries	Match log
Hana Sromova	CZE	#87	1,522	43	13	30	30.2%	$466,750	0	1998–2008	Rivalries	Match log
Maret Ani	EST	#63	1,616	64	22	42	34.4%	$733,979	0	2002–2009	Rivalries	Match log

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Tiantian Sun?: Tiantian Sun is 45 years old.
Which country does Tiantian Sun represent?: Tiantian Sun represents China in TennisDB's WTA records.
How tall is Tiantian Sun?: Tiantian Sun is 175 cm / 5'9".
Is Tiantian Sun left-handed or right-handed?: Tiantian Sun plays right-handed.
How many Grand Slam singles titles has Tiantian Sun won?: Tiantian Sun has not won a Grand Slam singles title.
How many WTA 1000 titles has Tiantian Sun won?: TennisDB does not group any of Tiantian Sun's titles under the modern WTA 1000 category.
How many WTA titles has Tiantian Sun won?: Tiantian Sun has won 1 WTA singles title across all categories. The most recent was Tashkent in 2006.
What is Tiantian Sun's highest WTA ranking?: Tiantian Sun's career-high WTA singles ranking is world No. 77, first achieved on March 19, 2007.
What is Tiantian Sun's career win-loss record?: Tiantian Sun has a career WTA singles record of 27 wins and 54 losses (33.3%).
How much career prize money has Tiantian Sun earned?: Tiantian Sun has earned at least $1,019,657 in career prize money from professional tennis.
Which seasons of Tiantian Sun's career appear in TennisDB?: Tiantian Sun appears in TennisDB's WTA main-tour match records from 2002 through 2008.
On which surface does Tiantian Sun have the highest recorded win rate?: Among surfaces with at least 20 recorded matches, Tiantian Sun's highest WTA main-draw win rate is on hard: 34.9% (22–41).
Who has Tiantian Sun faced most often?: Tiantian Sun's most frequent opponent is Virginie Razzano, with a head-to-head record of 0–3 across 3 meetings.